Question

A candidate for the local Board of Education does not believe that school districts that spend more per student have higher SAT score. The candidate wants to use regression analysis to investigate this. The candidate collects data for ten similar school districts nearby to test the hypothesis. The following table shows the data.

SAT Score	Spending per student
1,114	3,824
1,044	4,270
1,117	3,307
1,015	5,387
1,071	4,732
1,017	5,543
998	4,894
1,050	4,178
1,030	4,091
1,081	3,534

What is the value of the intercept for the equation?

-14.38

14.38

- 0.434

19528.21

None of these answers are correct

Answer 1

The value of the intercept for the euation is 19528.21